Legal History Blog

[We have the following announcement from our friends at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory of a new open access pub...

Steven A. Dean, Boston University School of Law , has posted  Racial Capitalism and International Tax Law: The Story of Global Jim Crow  (Ox...

This year's Harmsworth Conference of the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford is The Meanings of Independence: Th...

Jared A. Ellias, Harvard Law School, and Narine Lalafaryan, University of Cambridge, have posted  The Global Law of Debt :  Corporate debt f...

Caitlin Tully , a Ph.D. candidate in History at Princeton University, has published an essay in The Atlantic : " The Court has an Easy ...

Or Rosenboim, University of Bologna , has published, open access, Law, peace, and world order: Hans Kelsen’s global thought in the 1940s in...

[We have the following announcement from the American Society for Legal History .  DRE] Early Career Global Legal History Research Fellowsh...

Continuing our round-up of the prizes and award announced at the recent meeting of the American Society for Legal History , we turn now to t...

 [We have the following CFP.  DRE] W G Hart Workshop 2025: Regulating the Global Movement of Care.  Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, Lo...

Past & Present has published a supplemental issue, Ordering the Oceans, Ordering the World: Law, Violence, and European Empires , edite...

On Wednesday, February 14, 2024, from 2:00 - 6:00 PM, in Room 124 of the Yale Law School , YLS’s Schell Center for International Human Right...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] Workshop: Sources of Early Modern Colonial Law - Global and Comparative Perspectives.  CoCoLaw Pr...

"The  William & Mary Archive of American LGBTQ Political and Legal History , a first of its kind in the United States, will be fe...

English Laws, Global Histories; or, What Makes a Court Supreme? the presidential address Paul D. Halliday, University of Virginia , deliver...

Sam Lebovic, George Mason University , has published A Righteous Smokescreen: Postwar America and the Politics of Cultural Globalization , w...

Here is a fuller description, including the TOC, of the previously noted essay collection, American Legal Education Abroad: Critical Histori...

Fernanda Pirie, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford , has published The Rule of Laws: A 4000-Year Quest to Order the World (Basic Books)...

We are grateful to David Sugarman for word that Clio @ Themis , the on-line review of legal history, has a new website , which makes current...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] PhD Program in Global History and Governance .  Host Institution: Scuola Superiore Meridionale ...

[We have the following announcement.] A conference on the League of Nations and International Law during the Interbellum will take place...